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Crime Scene: Event 4 - Alis Hawkins in conversation with Paul Burke

Crime Scene: Event 4 - Alis Hawkins in conversation with Paul Burke
Welcome! This is one of four free ‘CRIME SCENE’ author events on Saturday 7th September at Cardiff Central Library Hub. For all the events, see https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/cardiff-hubs-libraries. Please book a ticket for each event you’d like to come to (we couldn’t do one ticket for everything – apologies!). Our authors will have books available for sale (please note this may be mixture of cash or card sales). You can also find a full rundown of the day on the Cardiff Hubs website here [https://cardiffhubs.co.uk/hub-events/crime-scene-a-crime-fiction-event/]. 15:00: Alis Hawkins in conversation with Paul Burke Writer and Podcaster Paul Burke of Crime Time FM chats to best selling Welsh author, Alis Hawkins, about life, work and her new series, the Oxford Mysteries. Alis has been shortlisted three times for the Historical Dagger Award; in 2020 for In Two Minds, the second in her Teifi Coroner series, in 2022 for Not One of Us, the fourth in the series, and this year for A Bitter Remedy, the first of her Oxford Mysteries. A Bitter Remedy was also longlisted for the Golden Dagger Award. Alis Hawkins grew up in Ceredigion, west Wales. She is the author of the Victorian-era Teifi Valley Coroner crime series featuring partially-sighted ex-barrister Harry Probert-Lloyd and his chippy assistant, John Davies, which has twice been shortlisted for the prestigious CWA Historical Dagger. Her second series, the Oxford Mysteries, set in the 1880s at the beginning of the women’s college movement, began with A Bitter Remedy which was shortlisted for this year’s CWA Historical Dagger, and continues with The Skeleton Army, published in April this year. Alis lives in the Forest of Dean, has a weakness for rucksacks and can’t resist an interesting fact. www.alishawkins.co.uk [//www.alishawkins.co.uk] Paul Burke writes for Monocle Magazine, Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network, Punk Noir Magazine (fiction contribution). He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2024. His first book An Encyclopedia of Spy Fiction will be out in 2025. We wish to acknowledge the financial assistance of Literature Wales’ Inspiring Communities Fund. Thanks also to sponsors Potter a'i Gwmni and David Penny. This session will be delivered in English. If you would like to access the event in Welsh, please notify us in advance of the event. By registering for this event you confirm you are happy for us to send you communications relating to this event only via email. Your email address will not be shared or used for any other purpose. For more information, please email [email protected] Croeso! Dyma un o bedwar digwyddiad awdur 'SAFLE TROSEDD' am ddim ar ddydd Sadwrn 7 Medi yn Hyb Llyfrgell Ganolog Caerdydd. Am yr holl ddigwyddiadau, ewch i https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/cardiff-hubs-libraries. Archebwch docyn ar gyfer pob digwyddiad yr hoffech ddod iddo (ni allem wneud un tocyn ar gyfer popeth – ymddiheuriadau!). Bydd gan ein hawduron lyfrau ar werth (nodwch efallai y bydd yn gymysgedd o arian parod neu gardiau). Gallwch hefyd ddod o hyd i amserlen lawn y diwrnod ar wefan Hybiau Caerdydd yma [https://hybiaucaerdydd.co.uk/hub-events/crime-scene-a-crime-fiction-event/]. 15:00: Alis Hawkins mewn sgwrs gyda Paul Burke Mae'r awdur a’r Podledwr Paul Burke o Crime Time FM yn sgwrsio â'r awdur llwyddiannus o Gymru, Alis Hawkins, am fywyd, gwaith a'i chyfres newydd, The Oxford Mysteries. Mae Alis wedi cyrraedd y rhestr fer deirgwaith ar gyfer Gwobr Historical Dagger; yn 2020 ar gyfer In Two Minds, yr ail yn ei chyfres Crwner Teifi, yn 2022 ar gyfer Not One of Us, y pedwerydd yn y gyfres, ac eleni ar gyfer A Bitter Remedy, y cyntaf o'r Oxford Mysteries. Cafodd A Bitter Remedy hefyd ei gynnwys ar restr hir Gwobr Golden Dagger. Cafodd Alis Hawkins ei magu yng Ngheredigion, gorllewin Cymru. Hi yw awdur cyfres droseddau Crwner Dyffryn Teifi o Oes Fictoria sy'n cynnwys y cyn-fargyfreithiwr rhannol ddall Harry Probert-Lloyd a'i gynorthwy-ydd, John Davies, sydd wedi cyrraedd rhestr fer ddwywaith ar gyfer Historical Dagger blaenllaw CWA. Dechreuodd ei hail gyfres, The Oxford Mysteries, wedi ei gosod yn y 1880au ar ddechrau mudiad coleg y menywod, gyda A Bitter Remedy a gyrhaeddodd restr fer Historical Dagger CWA eleni, ac sy'n parhau gyda The Skeleton Army, a gyhoeddwyd ym mis Ebrill eleni. Mae Alis yn byw yn Fforest y Ddena, mae’n hoff iawn o warbaciau ac mae’n cael ei denu gan ffeithiau diddorol. www.alishawkins.co.uk [//www.alishawkins.co.uk] Mae Paul Burke yn ysgrifennu i Gylchgrawn Monocle, Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover a'r European Literature Network, Cylchgrawn Punk Noir (cyfraniad ffuglen). Mae hefyd yn Feirniad Historical CWA 2024. Bydd ei lyfr cyntaf An Encyclopedia of Spy Fiction allan yn 2025. Hoffem gydnabod nawdd ariannol Cronfa Ysbrydoli Cymunedau Llenyddiaeth Cymru. Diolch hefyd i noddwyr Potter a'i Gwmni a David Penny. Bydd y sesiwn hon yn cael ei chyflwyno yn Saesneg. Os hoffech weld y digwyddiad yn Gymraeg, rhowch wybod i ni cyn y digwyddiad. Drwy gofrestru ar gyfer y digwyddiad hwn, yr ydych yn cadarnhau eich bod yn fodlon inni anfon gohebiaeth atoch mewn perthynas â'r digwyddiad hwn yn unig drwy e-bost. Ni chaiff eich cyfeiriad e-bost ei storio na’i ddefnyddio at unrhyw ddiben arall. I gael mwy o wybodaeth, e-bostiwch [email protected]

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